Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

40 reviews

stevienotnicks's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death

hmmclean's review

challenging dark funny medium-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

dexkit10's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

chelseakasten's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

4.5

As a lover of dark comedy and sufferer of “the mentals,” I found this book to be hysterical. I laughed out loud frequently; there’s even a sense of levity during the most deeply serious of topics. 

As noted in the intro, this book doesn’t have much structure. Overall I wasn’t bothered by this although there were a few pieces where I felt there could have been more of an editorial or stylistic transition to note the end of a story. At times, it seemed like small but delightful stories (like the peanut butter pug face for Nick Kroll) were unceremoniously crammed into larger stories without an ending, thereby giving the feeling that I missed something in my reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Animal death

alicesayshi's review

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

Wasn’t into it at first but improved about a third in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, and Eating disorder

amaralikecamera's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

meganmustachebeard's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Animal death

nahni's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

rsksmith's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I cheated and gave this 5.75 stars and if I could give it a million I would! 
Maria Bamford is one of my all time favorite comedians, so I didn’t doubt this would be great (and I was right to…not doubt? I guess?).

The audiobook is performed so well, it’s like a long comedy set but also very earnest and relatable. The way she speaks about her intrusive thoughts and inner dialogue is so so relatable.

I immediately want to watch Lady Dynamite again although the revelation that it was so challenging/draining for her to make also makes me feel guilty. BUT it’s already been filmed so when you think about it it I DONT watch it again then it’s like she suffered for nothing. 
So.
Bye!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Grief

This is the best memoir I’ve ever read. Granted I’ve maybe read two memoirs ever, but still.

anhedonia_n_anomie's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts